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Cal. Evid. Code § 453

JUDICIAL NOTICE

Applied in 51 court decisions — leading case 7 Cal. 3d 616 - Unruh v. Truck Insurance Exchange (1972)

Most recently applied in People of Guam v. Joshua Brandon Perez (December 2021)

Enacted by Stats. 1965, Ch. 299.

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Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.

The trial court shall take judicial notice of any matter specified in Section 452 if a party requests it and:

(a) Gives each adverse party sufficient notice of the request, through the pleadings or otherwise, to enable such adverse party to prepare to meet the request; and

(b) Furnishes the court with sufficient information to enable it to take judicial notice of the matter.

Official source: California Legislative Information. Reproduced from public-domain California statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.